Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficie…
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Mixed Reality in Facade Education
Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design proces…
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Specifying Electrochromic Glass
Electrochromic (EC) glass is a seemingly magical solution to a building’s sun shading problems. A technology that was originally developed about sixt…
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Execution Ways
Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “a new standard for a sports arena in the US”, and “the state-of-the-art arena …
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VR For Daylight
Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike many …
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Facade Mock-ups
Curtain walls and window walls are typically specified to meet a variety of different performance and testing criteria, some of which can be quite st…
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Influence of Facade Materials on the Acoustic Environment
Urban noise pollution is a major environmental health problem. International organizations are making efforts to prevent health damage due to high le…
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Feasibility of Measuring Stress in Glass with a SCALP
The SCALP device is designed to measure the residual compressive surface stress of glass. As the SCALP does not rely on the birefringence properties …
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Terra Cotta Skins
This paper will address the potential of ornamental architectural terracotta surfaces to mitigate the effects of climate fluctuations that will creat…
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Circadian Daylight Performance of the Electrochromic Glazing
Electrochromic windows introduced to building market as a smart glare control solution to provide visual comfort for building occupant. EC glazing ca…
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Integrating Structure and Cladding
The project represents a successful integration of a glass facade with the primary structure of the building. The choice of the building material is …
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United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum
Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the boundaries …
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The Seismic Capability of Curtainwalls
The testing of aluminum/glass curtainwalls for seismic capability, mainly inter-story drift, has been carried out on many curtainwalls over the last …
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Ginza Six
Tokyo’s prestigious Ginza District, is home to innovative architectural design. One of the most recent examples is Ginza Six (GSIX), the largest comm…
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Hydroformed Shading
New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of hi…
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Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems
With the desire for more sustainable construction and reduced embodied energy, mass timber is being explored for building structures. For medium and …
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U-Factor Matters in Hot Climates
It is commonly thought that fenestration U-factor is not a key determinant in the performance of facades in hot climates, and generally the focus of …
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An Energy-harvesting Building Facade
In order to reduce energy consumption throughout the whole life-cycle of buildings and increase the comfort performance of building sectors, an energ…
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Systems Thinking
This paper surveys facade design education in accredited Bachelor and Master of Architecture (B.Arch and M.Arch) programs in the United States. A rev…
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End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design
In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building en…